sugar maple

See also: sugar-maple

English

Sugar maple leaves

Alternative forms

• sugar-maple

Noun

sugar maple (plural sugar maples)

1. A North American hardwood, Acer saccharum, famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring.
   • 2024 December 6, Mackenzie Farkus, Brooke Holder, Nate Iglehart, Jacob Posner, Sophie Ungerleider, “Record drought and blazes? The US Northeast awakens to new wildfire risks.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Residents love this trail because of its wet coolness in the summer; its bright orange sugar maples in autumn, the contrast of green pines and white snow in the winter.

Synonyms

• (Acer saccharum): hard maple, rock maple

Coordinate terms

• maple sugar

Derived terms

• black sugar maple (Acer nigrum)
• southern sugar maple (Acer barbatum)
• sugar-maple borer (Glycobius speciosus)
• Western sugar maple (Acer grandidentatum)

Related terms

• sugar beet
• sugar cane

Translations

Acer saccharum

• Bulgarian: захарен клен m (zaharen klen)
• Finnish: sokerivaahtera (fi)
• French: érable à sucre (fr) m
• German: Zuckerahorn m
• Hebrew: אדר הסוכר m (eder hasukar)
• Hungarian: cukorjuhar (hu)
• Japanese: サトウカエデ (satō kaede), 砂糖楓 (satō kaede)
• Korean: 설탕단풍 (seoltangdanpung)
• Ojibwe: aninaatig
• Potawatomi: shenamesh
• Russian: клён са́харный m (kljon sáxarnyj)
• Swahili: mwaramoni sukari
• Welsh: masarnen siwgwr f

References

• sugar maple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acer saccharum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acer saccharum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• maple sugar, maple-sugar